USTR confirms the 2018 technology transfer tariff actions did not lapse at their four year anniversaries after 162 continuation requests, and opens a second statutory review that will decide the fate of roughly $370 billion in covered trade WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 The Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed this week that the…
Five days into the European Union’s fourth-quarter steel quota window, the biggest supply lines were not merely full but queued two deep. The next legal opening is January 1, and the rulebook that governs it expires on New Year’s Eve. BRUSSELS, October 7, 2026. The European Union’s new permanent steel trade measure opened its fourth…
Three days before the European Union’s trade chief was due in Beijing, Paris and Berlin demanded a legal weapon capable of cutting a third country out of the single market. Brussels is now negotiating and arming at the same time, and China has begun saying so in public. BRUSSELS, October 7, 2026. Maros Sefcovic travels…
A WTO panel will now examine whether Europe’s carbon border levy and the free allowances underpinning its own emissions market comply with the rules, in the first full legal test of climate-linked border measures as the definitive CBAM regime takes financial effect GENEVA / BRUSSELS, 6 October 2026 – The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement…
A second anti-dumping recommendation in under a fortnight brings the number of Bangladeshi export lines facing Indian duties to five, and Dhaka’s exporters are asking whether a trade relationship worth billions is being dismantled one product at a time NEW DELHI / DHAKA, 6 October 2026 – India’s trade remedy authority has recommended anti-dumping duties…
Macron and Merz have asked Brussels for a new instrument that would let the Commission restrict market access within days, reversing the burden of proof among member states and giving Europe a tool its officials openly compare to America’s Section 301 BRUSSELS / BERLIN / PARIS, 6 October 2026 – France and Germany have jointly…
With Chinese brands taking nearly a quarter of September registrations and Brussels pressing London to close what it sees as a back door into the single market, Britain’s long-held position against tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles is reported to be under active review LONDON, 6 October 2026 – Britain is preparing options for tariffs on…
Beijing opens an anti-dumping investigation into European p-nitrotoluene days before its trade chief meets the EU in a make-or-break session, turning a niche chemical into a test of whether the world’s second and third largest trading powers can still negotiate BRUSSELS / BEIJING, 6 October 2026 – China’s Ministry of Commerce has opened a formal…
Beijing opened an anti-dumping investigation into European p-nitrotoluene five days before the EU trade commissioner lands in the Chinese capital, turning an obscure dye and pharmaceutical intermediate into leverage at a make-or-break negotiation. BEIJING / BRUSSELS, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting China’s Ministry of Commerce opened an anti-dumping investigation on Saturday into imports…
The ITC sets an expedited schedule that points toward five more years of duties on Chinese intermodal chassis, with no importer willing to argue the other side WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 Five years after the United States imposed antidumping and countervailing duties on intermodal chassis from China, the equipment that carries nearly every ocean container…